The holiday season is a time for giving books and our readers are no exception. If you missed however one of our monthly posts is a great place to catch up on what smart readers are reading. This month we are going to try something different.

We are going to present the top ten lists two ways. The first is by unit sales which is comparable to past editions of this monthly post. The second way is by revenue which can be significantly different. Here you see higher priced finance books come to the fore. So here are the books (combined print and Kindle) that Abnormal Returns readers purchased at Amazon during December 2014:

The Top 10 (by Unit Sales)

  1. The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment by Guy Spier
  2. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
  3. Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind by Jocelyn K. Glei
  4. The Martian: A Novel by Andy Weir
  5. Life Planning for You: How to Design & Deliver the Life of Your Dreams by George Kinder
  6. Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
  7. A Short Guide to a Long Life by David B. Agus MD
  8. 400 Things Cops Know: Street-Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman by Adam Plantinga
  9. The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin
  10. Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

The Top 10 (by Revenue)

  1. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
  2. Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk by Gary Antonacci
  3. The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment by Guy Spier
  4. Trend Following with Managed Futures: The Search for Crisis Alpha by Alex Greyersman and Kathryn Kaminski
  5. Deep Value: Why Activist Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations by Tobias Carlisle
  6. Zero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
  7. Catching Lightning in a Bottle: How Merrill Lynch Revolutionized the Financial World by Winthrop H. Smith Jr
  8. The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel J. Levitin
  9. The 5 Secrets To Highly Profitable Swing Trading by Ivaylo Ivanov
  10. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson

Thanks again to everyone who purchased a copy of my book or any other book (or item) during the month. Keep an eye on this space for more book news.